I stumbled across some pictures of old matchbox covers from all over the world a little while back and was completely enthralled by the artistic style of it all. I was also intrigued by the imagery of what was all on the covers as it ranged from dragons, to King Kong, to stuffed teddy bears, to missiles and even a Pegasus. The style of the art with the gradient color tones, so good.

As you may know, Reebok is celebrating the 20th Birthday of their iconic Pumps. They collaborated with 20 different sneaker retailers all over the globe and came out with 20 different exclusive Reebok Pumps. After looking through all of the final products, I think I finally can amply assess my favorites, seen here:

Patta (Amsterdam)

HUF (San Francisco)

Alife Rivington Club (New York)

Undefeated (Los Angeles)

Colette (Paris)

A couple others almost made the cut including the ones from Bodega (Boston), St. Alfred (Chicago) and Kasina (Korea), but didn’t quite have enough appeal or were a little too flashy. All-in-all a dope collab effort from everyone involved.

I’ve been on a World War II kick lately, partially thanks to Nick from A Time To Get, and so I watched The Thin Red Line yesterday, one day after watching about 6 hours worth of Band of Brothers.

This great evil. Where does it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doin’ this? Who’s killin’ us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin’ us with the sight of what we might’ve known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night?